Fifth-placed Racing Luxembourg won clearly at T71 Dudelange B, 88-38, and completed a season sweep after the 97-34 first-leg result. Racing is now on a three-game winning streak, while T71B remains in a losing run and still moved up to 11th place after the round.
The game tilted very early. After a 2-2 start, Racing produced a 12-0 run to 14-2, driven by Jackie Diederich inside and captain Marie-Lou Haentges. T71B answered through Julie Poncin and Elsa Guedes, but the first quarter already ended with a solid 23-10 Racing lead.
The decisive stretch came at the start of the second period. Racing opened with a 16-0 surge from 23-10 to 39-10. Olivia Hoffmann was very effective near the basket in that phase, and Jil Mathis kept the pressure high. Guedes stopped the slide with repeated scores, yet Racing still held a 47-21 halftime advantage.
T71B had its best sequence in the third quarter, when Guedes fueled a 6-0 reply to bring the score to 55-27. Racing stayed composed: Jil Schmit and Diederich answered quickly, and the visitors entered the last quarter up 64-31. In the fourth, Racing pushed again from 64-31 to 70-31, then Mathis scored 7 points in a row for 77-31. The biggest gap reached 50 at the final buzzer.
Mathis (Season PPG: 9.56) led Racing with 19 points and four 3-pointers. Diederich added 16, Haentges (Season PPG: 11.22) had 15 despite four fouls, Hoffmann (1.85m) scored 14, and Schmit (Season PPG: 9.67) finished with 13. The 29-year-old Portuguese Juliana De Sousa Coelho added 9. For T71B, Guedes (Season PPG: 13.00) stood out with 18 points, more than 47% of her team's total. Poncin added 7.
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